Body of the street hawker crushed to death at Maryland, Lagos
Angry protesters went on rampage destroying about 20 BRT buses
around Ikorodu road in Maryland, Lagos, on Wednesday, June 29. The
attack followed the the crushing to death of a street hawker by a BRT
bus driver along the road.
According to a report by The Independent, officials of the Kick
Against Indiscipline, (KAI), on operation clean-up Lagos streets of
hawkers arrived Ikorodu road early and began to chase away hawkers who
were selling their wares along the road.
One of the male hawkers ran into the BRT lane, near Idioroko
bus-stop, Maryland, Lagos, in an attempt to escape from the wrath of the
KAI official when he was crushed to death by an on-coming BRT bus.
This angered people who witnessed the scene as suspected area boys
and touts used the opportunity to vandalize blue BRT busses plying the
Ikorodu road, even as some BRT buses from various parts of Lagos had to
disappear from the streets.
According to a resident of Palmgrove, several people have been
critically injured following the protest, which caught the police
unaware.
The police are now trying to calm the situation.
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